Publisher Desc.  Mostly toward the end of his life, Mozart wrote a series of light musical pieces for chamber orchestra designed for casual listening and "occasional" use (the Germans often call this type of music tafelmusik, or "table-music.") Each composition is a suite of popular dance movements of the day (Country Dances, Minuets, Landler, etc.) No, they are not Don Giovanni or the Jupiter Symphony, by any means. And yet, sometimes uncannily so, Mozart effortlessly synthesized the content and style of his greatest works into these generally brief dance movements, almost as if they were sketches for his larger, grander works. In this new, 3-volume set of Mozart Dances for Piano, 14 of these dance suites are faithfully transcribed for piano at the early to advanced intermediate level. Almost all appear as "new" Mozart music for piano (except for the Six German Dances, K. 509, which Mozart himself arranged for piano.) Within each volume, they are arranged by increasing difficulty. They are eminently suited for teaching, recital and concert performance, encores, recording, sight-reading practice, and theoretical study. We sincerely hope you enjoy them as much as we did in discovering and creating these little masterpieces. Lawrence Rosen